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The Single European Dump. Free Trade in Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes in the New Europe (1991)

Author	Simon Carroll, Greenpeace
Date	December 1991
Classification	6.01.5.70/01 (WASTE - INTERNATIONAL OR MULTINATIONAL STORAGE)
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THE SINGLE EUROPEAN DUMP INTRODUCTION

After twenty years of environmental activism, environmental protection is high
on almost everyone's political agenda. After years of educating politicians and
policy-makers about the environment, we are now seeing the beginnings of
measures which may have some effect in halting the process of environmental
degradation. But these are only just beginning to have an impact and are far
away from curing the illnesses we have already inflicted on our planet.

Meanwhile additional short-term industrial interests are mobilising under the flag
of free trade. They are claiming that their businesses are being crippled by
protectionism flourishing in the guise of environmental measures. Free trade
arrangements, such as GATT and the EEC Treaty are increasingly being invoked to
stop national governments from taking measures needed to protect the environment.
These efforts are breaking down barriers at the expense of the environment with
clear priority being given to free trade over environmental protection.

This report will focus on the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
and how, in its current form, it is an impediment to progress in environmental
protection. It will demonstrate the effects of free trade on the environment using
a special case study of the trade in hazardous and nuclear waste.

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